This Winter Colour Pairing Just Looks So Damn Expensive

Forget anything you thought you knew about complementary and clashing colours: Designers have officially thrown out the rule book and declared that anything goes. While the age-old saying states that brown and blue will never do, it's clear that the fashion crowd have decided otherwise, with the colour pairing trending not only on the runways of designers such as Valentino but also behind the street style lens and on the feeds of our favourite influencers.

Individually, powder blue and conker brown are topping the colour trend charts for autumn/winter 2018, so when paired together, they're a force to be reckoned with. Riding the wave of the "off" colour trend, their soft, faded finish offers a throwback '70s aesthetic to any outfit yet still manages to feel distinctly modern—and seriously expensive.

If the street stylers are anything to go by, the preferred way to wear the trend is going head-to-toe in one colour then adding accessories in the other. For example, Hanna Stefannson used a pale-blue Western shirt and matching flares as the backdrop for tan accessories. Nnenna Echem also made a brown checked suit pop with a powder-blue tote. So easy yet so effective.

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